"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
>
> The is a small change to struct timer in pre7-4. Instead of
> each timer having "prev" and "next" links, management of the doubly
> linked list is handled with a struct "list", which contains the
> "next" and "prev" fields. I am assuming that the semanitics of
> things like list.next == NULL are the same as the old next == NULL
> semantics, and so on. On that assumption, here is a patch that adjusts
> the rest of the kernel to the change that appeared in parts of pre7-4,
> so that the whole kernel compiles, at least on x86 (we build with
> every driver turned on, almost all as modules).
Agree with Yoann, this is completely wrong. :/
Take a look at Ingo's post on the subject, or perhaps just look at the
pre7-4 code and observe how the other timer fixes were made.
Jeff
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